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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

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Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

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No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

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In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith.

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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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